Everywhere you look, #hustleculture seems to have won the battle. Like some great marketing ploy, it seems to have convinced young and old workers alike to work harder, work longer – just work, work, work. But where does working harder and longer actually lead us to? Burnout. That’s where. Burnout can be blamed for the
Time tracking has been a recent-esque development in the past 5 years. If you’re unfamiliar with this particular work tool, time trackers theoretically aim to support company productivity by having employees use an daily timer whilst working on various projects. Think of the old-fashioned punch cards that employees would use every morning and evening to
Team Time Tracking or Team Not Time Tracking: The Modern Workforce Debate Weiterlesen
Judging leaders by their long-term results, rather than short-term hype is the most-common sense solution when analyzing how effective CEOs are in their positions. Harvard Business Review’s 2016 ranking of the 100 Top Performing CEOs has incorporated new metrics and tools to measure executives’ performance, adding 33 new CEOs to the list, having 30 CEOs
According to Harvard Business, Here are Best-Performing CEO Traits Weiterlesen
If you’re leading a company with employees, it can’t be that different when working freelancers, right? A common misconception is that freelancers are just like employees and thus, can be treated the same. But while employees can duck into the employee kitchen to avoid a bad boss, freelancers can simply stop working with clients. A
Rules of Engagement: How Managers Should(n’t) Work with Freelancers Weiterlesen
Here at absence.io, we prepare our clients—which range from legacy companies, governments, to startups—to easily manage planned and unplanned absences. Beyond our snazzy tech, we’re committed to providing talent managers and business owners key insights into the future of work and people management. Because bringing out the best people takes work. And the right tools.
Meet ‘n Greet the Next Gen in HR Tech: Eynat Guez, CEO of Papaya Global Weiterlesen
Office decor may seem like it should be the after-thought of the after-thought when it comes to building an effective company culture. Normally, it’s at the bottom of the Idea Bin when it comes to employee happiness. The real work lies in how a company can “delight” their customers, not in how a company makes
Wake Up Your Walls: Office Decor is the Other Team Member Weiterlesen
We tend to think of perfectionism in a more positive light than not. Mistakenly, both employees and employers fall into this train of thought: “My perfectionism produces better results”. But the science shows otherwise. Dr. Brené Brown, famed TED speaker and a professor specializing in the research of shame and vulnerability says that perfectionism is
This Habit Could Ruin Your Career and Cost Your Company Weiterlesen
Politics. Conflict. Workplace. Oh my. You share a desk with the work colleague who makes fun of Asian features. Your boss has hung a poster of a “Black Lives Matter” on his office door and rolls his eyes when newbies ask about the movement. Sometimes you lean towards visa quotes for certain countries, but your
Conflict Transformation: How to Stay Authentic Whilst Disagreeing in the Workplace Weiterlesen
The old school way tracking people and their absences probably meant a stone and hammer. Absence management in the 21st century has come a long way…and yet, not. Some companies have barely upgraded beyond ye olde paper and pen. Their bottom line is missing out. In the early 20th century, workers would “punch in” at
Absence Management – How to Survive the 21st Century Weiterlesen
What’s really the best job ever? Does it involve a company car, the corner office, your own assistant, or your own hefty bank account? A few users on Reddit named what their favorite jobs have been. From pizza delivery guy to a bouncer, there’s little mention of a Benz or a Central Park View. According to
People Confess What Their Best Job Ever Was – No Mention of a Corner Office Weiterlesen
If you hire people, manage people, or talk to people on a daily basis, then Adam Grant is your patron saint. He may be a management guru and an esteemed Wharton professor, but his expertise in organizational psychology remains applicable to anyone in the modern workplace. Fortune 500 executives and industry leaders listen to Grant’s
If You Hire, Then You Need to Know These 10 Lines from the Modern Day Peter Drucker Weiterlesen
Wharton Business School Professor, Adam Grant, is passionate about relaying the message of how the next era of talent management means hiring non-conformists. Why are they essential to a company’s bottom line? Learn why here. But how do hiring managers actually screen for originals? First Round Capital, the venture capital firm that has invested in
The New Competitive Advantage in Talent Management: How to Find the Originals Weiterlesen
If there was a superpower that could be life-changing, most people would think the power of invisibility, flight, or eternal good hair days. True, it would be reality-shattering to wake up everyday with perfectly groomed locks, but there’s something else people often overlook: The power to make good decisions. In this day and age, where
This is the Truest Super Human Power: How Managers Can Optimize Decision Making Weiterlesen
There’s a darker side to the sunnies time of year. No, it’s not viewing your lack of muscle definition in searing sunlight. It’s a little-known phenomenon termed reverse SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder). SAD is temporary depression that is heavily influenced by weather. Normally people associate its symptoms (depression, loss of appetite, low energy) with the
Do Your Employees Have Summer Depression? Help Them Beat the Heat Weiterlesen
How can a personality test be useful when hiring? Finding the right person for the job is the number one hiring priority. A bad hire costs companies productivity, time, and budget. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the average cost of a bad hire is 30 percent of their salary. For example, a junior
Understand the Employee Subconscious: Smart Hiring Using the Enneagram Test Weiterlesen
